Urban Project - The Supermarket completed

Hi all

As the title of the post suggests, I've completed the supermarket that I have been building for my Urban Project.  Last time I posted about it, this was the extent of the build - a shell ready to be populated.

I also put together the shelves for my display counter.

So what have I done since? well for starters I put together the rest of the display counter.  Using blu-foam and coffee stirrers...

The finished, painted article is further on in this post.  For more detail on the shop floor, I also wanted to add some fresh produce so I built a wooden crate.

lined it with purple painted kitchen towel

and filled it with these....

to produce this...

which, again will show up later fully painted.  I also wanted to put up a low, decorative wall around the parking area of the market.  To this end I made some posts out of blu-foam (naturally) and added some beads to give a nice finish.

more bits and bobs followed including a rather crooked ladder from cocktail sticks...

and the flat roof that would cap the piece.

I also wanted to fence of the unloading yard and to that end purchased some mesh from Wicks for a couple of quid, some bending, cutting and swearing later, I managed to get some lengths of fencing made up, which I drybrushed with some rust effect...

more bits and bobs were made up while I waited for things to dry - here are some road signs made from signs printed from the internet onto photo paper and backed onto cereal box card, then mounted on a cocktail stick on a 20mm base.

All I did then was put everything together.  The roof was covered in homemade textured paint and capped with a sign that I printed from t'internet. I also printed off loads of advertising signage - supermarkets are a riot of colour and crap product adverts!

The parking lot got its bays whitelined and signs posted. added to which are my 3D printed trolleys.

The yard benefitted from some gas bottles from Wargames Terrain Workshop and some signage

as well as some homemade wheelie bins

The warehouse got some boxes that I'd sculpted as well as vending machines from Wargames Terrain Workshop and of course last weeks safe!

here are the shelves fully loaded with handy supplies for the survivors....

and the produce crate and some sacks of spuds on a pallet

the checkouts are at the far end of the store....

That's it for now as some of the piece is still drying/gluing.  I will, as promised show the whole board next week, fully laid out complete with zeds.

hope you enjoy
dGG

Urban Project - Supermarket WiP 2

Hi all

Progress is being made on the supermarket, mostly on the structure. I wanted to represent the more typical retail structures which are usually glass fronted.  This meant going back to the technique used in my three houses i.e. coffee stirrers cut in half length ways and then painted, in this case bronze to make up the frames.  I then used blister pack plastic to recreate the glass.  

I then made up the walls for the shop.  I chose to make a Morrisons (a UK based supermarket chain) not for any real reason but the signage is pretty usable for the build. I wanted the walls to look modern so didn't scribe the brick pattern on any of the public facing walls and only left the bare brick work for the employee only areas to recreate the difference between the public and private areas in retail operations.

While the paint was drying on the walls I started carving the ground work on the base.  This meant the standard paving/tarmac mix that makes up British pavements, as well as the tiles on the shop floor.  I also sanded the "dropped curb" areas, one for a parking lot and the other for the delivery entrance.

Painting the base was simplicity....erm not! Tiles individually painted is so time consuming.  The tarmac areas will eventually get a textured paint covering and white lines etc but for now left a base black.

The roller door for the delivery entrance was simplicity itself.  Some corrugated cardboard with the thin paper covering removed carefully and then glued back to back before cutting to size.

Last thing this week is to show the shelving units I've started to build, made from coffee stirrers and some mdf scraps.  These will have either my Das fully stocked pieces on them or half filled versions when I get  around to making them.

That's it for this week. All that remains is for me to wish all of you good people a very merry Christmas and I'll catch you on the flip side.

hope you enjoy
dGG

Urban Project - the supermarket WiP 1

Hi all

Onto the next part of my project and one that I'm hoping will add a lot of character and playability to the setup.  As the title of the post states, the next build will be a supermarket.

Not a great deal has been done on the structure of the market but I have been putting together some of the detail which will (I hope) enhance the piece.  First of all though I need to know rough dimensions, so I cut a base out of blue foam.  As you can see its a pretty big chunk of the board, roughly 2'x2' in an "L" shape.

Onto some of the detail then. Firstly I made a set of shelving contents carved from blue foam and made a mould from Blue Stuff.  I then replicated the piece 8 times out of Das

Which I then painted up

I then made some wheelie bins.

As well as some pallets for the warehouse section.  These were made out of coffee stirrers and some mdf pieces roughly the size of matchsticks.

I then moulded the boxes that will make up the boxed goods for the warehouse.

The one thing I didn't have a clue how to make were shopping trolleys.  Given time I could pobably figure something out but that is a luxury I don't have. So I hit t'internet and procured these.

From a 3D printing company that does for Architects.  Painted they look pretty darn good and scale well with 28mm minis.

and thats as far as I have got this week.  

hope you enjoy

dGG